xtian170174
08-14-2006, 12:48 PM
For all those who are familiar with bulletins on MySpace, this may prove useful, or easy to answer....
As those who use the bulletin service will know, javascript is not allowed in that context.....
....To get around this and provide recipients of a MySpace bulletin with an interactive element, I am trying to find the means to encode a gif file with two frames...... The first frame appears as a static image (as if there is only one frame), then the second frame appears only when the user clicks their mouse on the area to be 'revealed'
....if I was able to pick up html in one go, and take an educated, though obtuse guess, I would have said, to myself [a closed mouth gathers no foot].....;
<img src="path://animation.gif|onclick reveal next frame">
...this is based on 1st/ getting a gif file and 2nd/ using a 'command switch' to make it act a certain way....
...please excuse my apparent lack of html interest besides chevron brackets and the img src tag - I believe the answer will be relevant to the guess though and that it will serve as a useful step up to anyone finding they have come to understand the method in a similar way (I don't think in html, I just apply thought to it to discern the correct code).
...and that's it, save to reiterate the simple need posted here for servicing:
A 2 frame gif file that only plays (reveals next frame) upon user's mouse click
As those who use the bulletin service will know, javascript is not allowed in that context.....
....To get around this and provide recipients of a MySpace bulletin with an interactive element, I am trying to find the means to encode a gif file with two frames...... The first frame appears as a static image (as if there is only one frame), then the second frame appears only when the user clicks their mouse on the area to be 'revealed'
....if I was able to pick up html in one go, and take an educated, though obtuse guess, I would have said, to myself [a closed mouth gathers no foot].....;
<img src="path://animation.gif|onclick reveal next frame">
...this is based on 1st/ getting a gif file and 2nd/ using a 'command switch' to make it act a certain way....
...please excuse my apparent lack of html interest besides chevron brackets and the img src tag - I believe the answer will be relevant to the guess though and that it will serve as a useful step up to anyone finding they have come to understand the method in a similar way (I don't think in html, I just apply thought to it to discern the correct code).
...and that's it, save to reiterate the simple need posted here for servicing:
A 2 frame gif file that only plays (reveals next frame) upon user's mouse click